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...which had been smuggled past Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera's censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial in Valencia, before whom he stood accused of High Treason (TIME, Dec. 9). The 70-year-old rebel is living quietly in Madrid today with his daughters, and when he goes walking is sometimes cheered by irrepressible students...
...proudly confessing to the treasonable charge against him- that he had indeed come from France to Valencia in a leaky old tramp steamer for the sole purpose of leading an insurrection against the present Government of Spain. Whole volumes of typically Spanish controversy have arisen as to whether Revolutionist Sanchez Guerra was received by the Captain General of Valencia "with a closed door"-i.e. whether the highest military official of the province was himself ready to become a party to the revolution...
...Down with the King! Long live the Republic! Hurrah for Sanchez Guerra...
...José Sanchez Guerra was Prime Minister of Spain shortly before General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera seized dictatorial power (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). Don José soon and ostentatiously went into "voluntary exile" at Paris, proclaimed that he did so in protest against Dictator Primo de Rivera's suppression of the Cortes (parliament). Even in exile Don José remained the acknowledged leader of Spain's parties of the Left. Last January his followers perfected elaborate plans to stage simultaneous risings of Spanish garrisons on a certain day. On that day Exile José Sanchez Guerra was to land at Valencia, proclaim...
...Jockey Club in sophisticated Buenos Aires. One night last week the sumptuously baroque club was con fiesta for some jovial Britons. Champagne popped and sizzled. Frankly the Britons admitted they were out for Argentine trade. Hospitably they were toasted and cheered. "Welcome! Welcome to Argentina!" cried Dr. Joaquin Sanchez de Anchorena, oldtime toastmaster of El Club. "I cannot praise too highly British achievement in stock-raising and horse-breeding. Rest assured we are ready to give preferential attention to the aims of your economic mission...